Fixed Action Pattern Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Stimulus that causes male three-spined sticklebacks to become aggressive.
  2. 5. Something fixed action patterns evolved to avoid as they are an instinct, allows for quick reaction times to new scenarios that have a large effect on fitness.
  3. 6. An extra strong stimulus that produces an exaggerated fixed action pattern response.
  4. 7. Fixed action patterns are an instinct that a species is born with and thus aren't effected by this level of analysis.
  5. 9. The neural network that detects a sign stimulus and activates a fixed action pattern.
  6. 12. A result of code breaking where two species are exerting selective pressure on each other resulting in their simultaneous evolution in an effort to outcompete each other.
  7. 14. A complex reaction to a stimulus that is in an instinct in all individuals of a given species, does not vary between individuals, and is always completed once started.
Down
  1. 1. A quick ___ time to stimuli that are vital to an organisms fitness is one of the reasons fixed action patterns evolved.
  2. 2. One of the levels of analysis fixed action patterns fall into, has to do with stimulus recognition and behavior activation.
  3. 4. When one species exploits another's fixed action pattern, typically by replicating the releaser, to benefit their fitness.
  4. 8. The stimulus that triggers a fixed action pattern.
  5. 10. Level of analysis that describes the main benefit behind fixed action patterns.
  6. 11. Elaborate fixed action pattern that male sage grouses perform in response to a specific sound made by females.
  7. 13. A behavior that is performed to completion from the first time it is performed, is a result of genetics instead of learning.